Foucault – the lot of you

The Foucault post yes­terday seemed to go down well, so I thought I’d chance my arm and respond to a couple of cri­ti­cisms in a new post rather than the comment thread. Sorry, purists.

My erstwhile-​​​​friend Roger from Content & Motion launched the first counter-​​​​offensive. ;-) His main point is about the decent­ral­isa­tion of power in

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Surrender! Foucault and Twitter

Some of my early hopes for social media, that it rep­res­ented, like Kevin Kelly reckons, some kind of renais­sance for socialism in the western world, are starting to run dry.

There’s a splendid series of articles over at O’Reilly Media con­cerning the dark side of social media by Joshua-​​​​Michéle Ross. The first

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